Ultrasonic Particle Manipulation in Glass Capillaries: A Concise Review

Ultrasonic Particle Manipulation in Glass Capillaries: A Concise Review

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Ultrasonic particle manipulation (UPM), a non-contact and label-free method that uses ultrasonic waves to manipulate micro- or nano-scale particles, has recently gained significant attention in the microfluidics community.Moreover, glass is optically transparent and has surf accesories dimensional stability, distinct acoustic impedance to water and a high acoustic quality factor, making it an excellent material for constructing chambers for ultrasonic resonators.Over the past several decades, glass capillaries are increasingly designed for a variety of UPMs, e.

g., patterning, focusing, trapping and transporting of micron or submicron particles.Herein, we review established and emerging glass capillary-transducer devices, describing their underlying mechanisms of operation, with special emphasis on the application of glass capillaries with fluid channels of various cross-sections (i.

e., rectangular, square and circular) on UPM.We believe that this review will provide a superior guidance Body Butters for the design of glass capillary-based UPM devices for acoustic tweezers-based research.